Hey /gd/I have a question, if I produce images using illegal versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, do these images have any metadata that can be tracked to see if they were illegally produced?and how do I remove such metadata, I tried googling this shit but it doesn't come up with any real answers on this topicI'm just getting to the point of completing my 4th as well as 5th gd project for my portfolio and want to upload them all to Behance but also still not cause any problems for potential employers.thanksAlso post your questions/queries
>>444142bump
>>444142I guess the safest option is posting a screenshot instead of the actual image, but obviously it won't have the same quality
>>444142Yup.
>>444147seems to require some nitpicking.op asked for whether illegal usage is trackable, not the name of the used program.because Idk.
>>444160This is the difference if you remove metadata via windows. They must include things the software maker can use to see if the serial is legit.
does anyone know what this art style is called
>>44438880's futuristic.
Hey anons, I'm sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong thread but I really want to have your advices. So I have a friend who wants to be in an art college and I want to help them in every way possible but I don't really know anything about art. The test they will be taking involving some kind of "color decorating", which is the kind of art that I've attached a picture for you guys to see. So my question is what kind of art is this really (so that I can search up tips for them) and if you guys are artists, can you let me know what's wrong with this painting? Also, they want to ask you guys about tips on how to "make the main subject of the painting stands out from the background". Thanks for reading this and I hope that you guys will have a great day.
>>444388>444388vaporwave
Not sure what exactly to ask, how do I extract text/design like in picrel? Is there a quicker way than manually selecting?
>>444978theres websites that have font detectors. whatthefont.com or whatever. sometimes they dont work, esp with weird fonts or complex images. worth a shot tho
Is there a program out there (preferably free) which turns photos into pictures that look hand drawn, cartoony, artsy or something similar?Would help me alot with a project im working with right now.Id like to add that im new to the hobby, I wouldnt even call myself a beginner.A program easy to use and not super complex would be great.
>>444147>>444160OK it may be a stupid question (not very tech-savvy here), but what if you open the finished artwork in Inkscape or GIMP and then save it again? Would that change the metadata in any useful way?
>>445009There's tons of photo editors that have filter capabilities that render photos as if they'd been created using different types of artistic mediums, most of them in fact.Whether it looks accurate or even good is another thing entirely, and the quality and properties of the source photo make a big difference...like if you want a black and white "cartoon" line drawing look you need a high contrast image to start with. In my experience certain ones do better for certain things and may be nearly useless otherwise.For example, Prisma Art Effect Photo Editor does really nice pen and ink and etching style renderings without much trouble but most of the other filters are ugly.Picrel is a photo of a TV screen run through it, another thing to consider is that while it looks almost like a coloring book page, if you need the perfectly defined closed line strokes of a coloring book you'd have to do some touching up; those kinds of filters just give an *impression* of a line drawing or oil painting or etching or whatever.
Hello /gd/Any idea for the design of pic related? I'd rather not add shit on it but I'd like to paint it up. It's a gift for the boat license my niece recently passed.Thanks
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>>445070>>445071any more info to provide?what does she like? what does her flat/room/house look like? how much work are you planning on spending?
Is anyone familiar with creating designs for a cutter/plotter/etching machine? I have recently got a Silhouette Cameo 4 and would like to use it not just for the more common purposes (vinyl stickers and paper art) but also to precision cut leather and thin wood for scale diorama items. It uses SVG files, so I guess what I'm asking is what software works well for a relative beginner to create new designs and/or import existing designs in other file types to convert and smooth them? The included software is only really useful for existing SVG files and the tutorials I can find online are basic and mostly for Pinterest moms making boss babe stickers for their giant coffee cups.
>>444147bullshit
>>445073uh, maybe her name and not the indicator of her familiar relationship to you?
>>445103That looks like another anon doing a mockup and using niece as a placeholder for a name. >>445071Have a look at some fancy model tugboats maybe for placement of an anchor and rigging and typical paint styles. Paint framing around the windows to make them stand out. Use her name for the ship's name, and put the date she got licensed as the registration number (? I dunno if thats what its called for boats but same idea).
>>445120Also for the love of god sand it a bit first
>>445073Hello! Thanks for the mockup!!She likes the same things girls her age do (22) : taking pictures, Rick and morty, Netflix... I think that's all, reallyHer bedroom is white, with mauve curtains and a bunch of pictures and posters (black Rick and morty and one piece ones) on her walls, and pictures surrounding her mirror. She's also got some kind of red closet. I've got another special gift for her so I don't plan to spend that much for this specific wood boat project. I've thought of buying varnish give a solid look to the boat.>>445103It wasn't me. Just a kind anon giving his piece of mind.>>445120Thanks for the advice!! The anchor and window framing are good ideas. I'll look it up. If this thread is still around I'll let you guys know what I've made.
>>445124hrmm. not much for me to work with there.I don't know to what extend incorporate these exact specifics into the design...?but here you go. maybe this idea sparks you inspiration? I wanted to indicate a rick and morty character design based on her. (lol this is the archetypical 22 year old to me it seems)the text could say your and her name. or chick and boaty. or something 'stupid' like that. (I mean the show IS pretty ironic).admittedly could be a terrible idea as well. depends on her and your kind of relationship I guess.I certainly know people who would absolutely love something like that, but also those that would consider it cringe.
>>445132I want to add that something like that would probably age worse than a more neutral (elegant?) approach - like the simple red one I uploaded earlier or the tug boat idea of that other anon. I think it would be cool if it were timeless enough to be kept forever in her boat or even living room.
>>445133on your behalf asked AI for inspiration
I need to paint a list of services provided by my business in a wall >pic relatedWhat colours should I use so it can make a contrast with the wall and be seen from at least 20 mts??? I was thinking in yellow letters with a frame of blue but looks bad, what colors should I use?
>>445177black and/or white is old fashioned or what?
What's the best AI image generator to just make simple t shirt designs?
Is there a plugin for Gimp that lets me create a grid overlay, but I can drag the corners of all grid boxes to reshape the grid?Basically a bunch of dots with straight lines between them, and I can drag around the dots.Preferably I would like to not "finalize" the layer (convert it to raster) but could come back to it and adjust the dots, then work on a different layer, then come back and adjust the dots. Etc.
>>445180too plain
>>445279clown business?
>>445280no, I found my final design, it's going to be like the one I posted first but black instead of blue
which version is better?
Does anyone know how to recreate this kind of effect? Specifically the web compression/artifacts look, the bleedthrough, and the outline. I assume they used some kind of plugin but I'm not sure what kind of shit I should be googling to find the lookhttps://youtu.be/lhfs1CzzUPM?t=194
>>445511lookup data-moshing tool or something similar
ANON PLEASE HELP!!1My shitty portfolio got me into the running for a graphics job and I'm overthinking this test they gave me:>Please do a quick mock up of how you would lay out the design. >The design should include the Boy Scouts logo attached>Include the name “John Smith”>Include the text “Troop- 123”>This would be sublimated on a double sided mug>Don’t take longer than ten minutes. The last few years have been bad for me and I haven't designed much. I haven't worked in a graphics department for almost a decade and I'm not really sure what they're looking for and I'm afraid to ask because I know these instructions probably seem straightforward to them and being perceived as dithering and uncertain probably doesn't help my case. I'm just not sure if their standards here are really low or not.My first instinct was to simply put an arced John Smith over the logo and troop123 underneath the logo and duplicate it on both sides of the cup because it's personalized mug and the important thing is the personalization, but that's what anyone chump would do, right? I've already spent more than an hour and now I need to make it look like I've spent a lot less time than I have.What would you do?
>>445553Top left is fine. Just submit that. It's a test to see if you can do acceptable work in a short timeframe, that way they'll get more designs and money out of you. Pretty sure you are not going to be designing Coca-Colas next logo at this place, so just do the work as the brief is written, throw flare in the ocean and get paid.
>>445553what anon said. you are doing fine. not much actual design work to be expected from such an assignment. they probably want to see your understanding for basic visual hierarchy and sufficient knowledge about the tools.I like top left most as well.>>445501cute. the brows make it seem more mature. if it is for kids, I would go without them. otherwise they do have some humor. but I cant tell you which one to go for...
>>445559>>445560Damn it, I knew I was overthinking things again.Thank you, Anon. I'll have to trust my intuition more in the future.
>>445560Cool. Thanks for the input! This is the design I ended up going with. Added thin borders, thinner eyebrows, easier to read font. (jaggies were cleaned up in the final version)
>>445574lol kid font for the name, bad letter spacingbig boy seraph font for the serious and important est. 46looks like a south park design for a dildo
>>444142does anyone have any sublimation art for those skinny tumblers? or these .svg templates for fiber lasers?
>>445553top left.bottom is hella nice tho, but top is going to be the cheapest to have made.
>>445582>looks like a south park design for a dildolmao I was trying to avoid that so much, ill work on it later
logo for webcomic aimed at the tween demographic, the inspiration is y2k futurism and 6th -7th generation video game logos Thoughts?
I edited a Rise of Nations sprite (and the map settings) to make it look like night. But I don't know of anyway to edit the sprites ingame other than using a post processing addon like ReShade (SweetFX). Does anyone know what is the term to make the brightest things on the image less bright and even the image out? I want to make the window lights and lamp lights vanish on pic rel. I tried using a color isolator with the "remove" setting but even if I go with yellow there's not much change
This is what the original looks like, so what I want for the post processing filter is to gradually make it look like pic related (daytime), well, at least as close as possible
>>445769I would make the t look like a t.
>>445819I'll keep that in mind, which EX do you like?
>>445816>>445817>>>/3/
>>445823I would do something like this to make it different from the title. Obviously keep the corners consistent unlike this one as I just traced it and moved a few points. Just a suggestion.
Xnview has a feature to remove all metadata without altering the image. You can double check it is gone using an metadata viewer.
I want to give Generative Fill a try but I'm still on Catalina (2012 macbook pro that i've upgraded). I'd rather not go through the hassle of updating to Big Sur. Is there anyway I can get beta on this machine?
>>445511adivemux
Does the "difference" or "subtract" or "divide" layer mode in GIMP or another program act as a foolproof way to see differences in pixels between two layers?I'm trying to determine if putting images in a CBZ/CBR file lossily compresses them, so what I did was take the original image, put it in gimp, then add the image to a CBZ, then open the CBZ and copy the image , then paste that as a seperate layer in gimp and set the layer modes.Difference and subtract seemingly just shows a pitch black area of no differences, but if I use a color selection tool (even if I copy visible and paste beforehand so there's an actual layer showing what it said regardless of mode) the blacks seem slightly different and you can still see outlines of detail if you select by color with 0 threshold. If I set it to divide, then it's pure white, but some pixels are a clear bright green, yellow, read, etcTo me, this would imply the images AREN'T the same after put in a CBZ, but if I extract the image, it has the same checksum/hash as the original.So will a difference/subtract/divide layer view option not actually show pure white/black even if two layers are the same?
What sort of computer specs do I need to edit/open photos that are tens of thousands of pixels wide/tall?There's some gigapixel panoramas I want to download and fuck around with.Will 64 gigabytes of RAM be enough? Are specific image editing programs better about handling very large images?
Hey guys what is the best figma course or resource out there?
Are there any decent apps on iPhone to make collages like the ones in madoka magica?
why do my colors get fucked when exporting?
>>446905Probably because you are converting from Adobe RGB to sRGB.
>>446929unchecking teh convert to sRGB doesn't seem to change anything, is there something else I could try?
>>444388retrowave, outrun, synthwavethese might get you more images like it
>>445769I personally like less rounded fonts so you might want to try that to look more unique
Is a 4K monitor worth +200USD, or is 1440p just fine?
>>446948You will have to scale it and zoom in on websites anyway. 4k is really only for media consumption.
Is there a way to losslessly append/sitch together images?Like I have a 20mb pdf, and in it there's an image split across 2 pages. If I extract the images from the PDF and combine them in gimp and save it as a ong, the image is 6mb, but clearly the images in the pdf do not take up that much space.Is there a way to just combine/sitch them into one image without re-compressing them so the filsize stays small? Obviously if I just assemble it and save it as a jpg in a image editing program conventially, that will do lossy compression and reduce image quality, which I don't want
>>445011Hmmm. Assuming you flatten all layers and just do a copy-paste I would ASSUME you would end up with the same image pixel-for-pixel You could also just post it to 4chan and then save the image once it’s here. I’m pretty sure 4ch scrubs all metadata
Is there a program or website where I can post an image (like a wallpaper or something) that will turn it into a paint by numbers template?
>>447086idk i dont use gimp but exporting as jpeg in PS with proper settings will result in minimal noticeable artifacting whilst keeping filesize downobviously for future edits you save the master too separately
>>447118"Minimal" isn't good enough, I want actual no reduction of image quality or change to the image itself aside from the two pages being combined into one image side by side.
Hello, technically, manually speaking, how do you render, paint posters of translucency/refraction/reflectivity of objects more naturally, like glasses and such, especially when multiple of thems are placed nearby and create complex light effects so.. how do i solve this, manually? like the time before digital imaging... so called, physically correct painting. Looking for some in book theories and tutorials so on..havent find any in specific on this materials...Also on another subject... how do one assure design quality maybe on social media or content creations, to reach or sell 5 digits or more? Other than being on trend, how are 'design' being carefully targetted to that crowd?
>>445769I'm back over a month later,I made a 2nd logo without the EX as this is for different reasons. Still inspired by y2k futurism and 6th -7th generation video game logos. Looked at Mod Nation Racer's logo for inspiration.Thoughts?
>>447184looks fine, just try a few different version with less stretching on the letters F and H
How to design things that will reach some 5 digit people via interwebs, deviantartSo on
>>447202easy.you make what people want
>>447214Hm. Never get anything that large since the dawn of internet
>>447202Bump
How to solve refractions/reflections/translucent materials on objects/lineartLike thisLike glass on glas
How to plan your design so to maybe reach some 6 digit traffic/klout/salesAnnually?What are the aspectCriteriasElements
Is video editing viable as a career these days? Like if I enjoy editing and not much else and decide to pursue editing how fucked am I?
>>444142I'm not joking, but fully understand why people would believe that i am and troll me. Is there a free software that would let me design bras, bikinis, panting and lingerie? Even a "free" software would do. I'm not looking to make money, just trying to draw things i like.
>>447306I'll bump because I'm seriously looking for answers
>>447359How do you mean design. If you mean sketch them then you could use inkskape or gimp. If you mean simulation then you would have to pay for something like marvelous designer or get blender for free but it's not as good.
>>447362I have no idea what im doing, hence why i asked here. I would like ro draw some and then potentially put them on some models. is inskape or gimp really good d for designing clothing?
>>447363Yes, you could do the flat patterns with them.
>>447232>>447232bumplooking to know the quality controldata comparatve methodbecause the internet is so big
I'm new using photoshopI need to put in left side the same shadow that is in the rightI tried using levels and contrast layers
>>444145wow you stupid
>>444142did you already post these images in the public?If yes then you should collect money for the punitive fine. It should be something about 10k. Other option is to prepare your anus in advance because you will be big daddy's little girl in jail cell the next time.
where can i find reference or list of values, like for design, that sort of decides how your stuff is valued (in the internets, social media) adding up the klouts and so on.some rule, sorta exist, right? otherwise all d be a clear
I'm new to UI design and wanted to know how free Figma actually is, like what is it that I can't do in free Figma? I wanted to give other free alternatives a chance and to me Penpot seems like the most promising one but it still lacks features that are in XD and Figma, the other ones are janky as fuck, especially Lunacy, I just can't get that one to work properlyI like XD the best but the problem is that I got it pirated and if I ever do professional work I'd like to share the live prototypes as opposed to sending PDFs or recording the prototype with OBS or whatever. Is there something you're missing if you use free Figma as a professional?
>>447477It has the same functionality as the paid versions. If you don't pay you are limited to 3 project folder files, but on free you can have unlimited artboards where you dump everything in one file. You might blow through your storage on free too, I think it's only one gb.
Where can I find clients online that ISNT freelance platforms like upwork/fiver/etc
>>447501Good luck, I have no idea either and nobody here will tell you or give you a proper guide, probably because it all relies on luck, it's also hard because most graphic designers you find online are all pajeets and they're the ones making this an over saturated field for freelancers that want to work remotely I wish someone would tell me where I can find quick jobs that aren't on upwork or fiverr or any of those awful sites.
>>447184Did some emblem iteration sketches for an hour, which do you prefer
bump just to get advice on the previous post
>>444142No.I use pirate software all the time.Never pay for your tools, brother. The world owes you them.
So I've developed a style I enjoy working with. I've been working on/with it since 2013 but never uploaded anything so far. I feel I might be able to use it commercially, I'd love to create a brand of my own or even just a few series of graphic design exercises. I've made hundreds of pieces so far. However, I haven't studied GD apart from what my father taught me. He was in the trade for 40 years or so. All my takes and ideas are probably outdated, especially since I started ten years ago. Since then, glitch art and vaporwave have made rounds on the net and what I'm doing could probably be interpreted as being similar to those. One of my largest inspirations was superflat, but more the stated intention behind it than the style itself. My stuff looks like low-res digital graffiti, kinda. I've been keeping it up because it's enjoyable, relaxing and therapeutic to me. But lately I've been thinking these doodles might be appreciated somewhat by someone else. I'm not sure how to get the ball rolling. Bring a portfolio to local galleries or design/copy studios? Making an online thsirt store, is that a death sentence if you can't get outreach? Should I just post shit into a social algorithm like twitter and see if it catches any attention?It's probably just pieces of shit I alone could appreciate but I want to try. How would you start?
looking for detailed guideline on illustration/art in animemanga/comiccartoon sphere, social media especially that ll appeal to millions of audience/traffic/saleslike other than niche and trend, perhaps building fanbase from 0s, and straight up to big digits, and its increments
>>448356bump
Where can I find ready to use effects for saliva, water drops and smoke?
>>447764I'm impartial to B, but maybe C if it maybe gets a better look.Maybe H3 and H4 but it really feels like it could use more polish.
Is there ANY alternative to Adobe if I need to convert colours in a design from RGB to Pantone?The online colour converters are shit, and for some stupid reason there is no 'Recolor Artwork' option in Affinity Designer despite having Pantone colours.I literally just need to get proper Pantone codes for my projects and i can't afford the ridiculous subscription fees for Photoshop et al.
>>447667It's really difficult to find reputable clients online anon. I wish someone can tell us what to do
>>448431https://sam.gov/content/homehttps://www.freelancer.com/https://www.upwork.com/freelance-jobs/graphic-design/Easy and simple
How would you improve these mockups?
how can i make a png 8 bit and indexed?
>>446489I use a method similar to yours and can confirm it's correct. If selection isn't pure pink/green then there're differences in the images.>if putting images in a CBZ/CBR file lossily compresses themIt shouldn't. CBZ/CBR are essentially zip/rar archives, they were designed specifically to preserve files down to the last bit. My guess on possible differences would be>take the original image, put it in gimp, >!!!< then add the image to a CBZimporting/exporting image in GIMP, it often re-encodes the pixels so there are minor differences. Whether the quality improves or regresses is very debatable and depends on particular cases.
so i downloaded Ai on my new build and i got this fucking shit, how the fuck do i turn all of it off? everything in the view menu is set to hidden
>>448439Wrap the texture onto an actual 3D model and render it in various stock positions (supermarket shelf, display box in a gas station, on a shelf in a pantry, et al)
does generative fill no longer work for anyone else? worked perfectly until like yesterday now the loading bar fills completely before it gives me a "something went wrong. please try again" message
For someone that really likes 3D modeling, should they go for Graphic Design or Computer Art and Animation?
What do you think about this?It's for a school competition
Ripple edit for PS?Say you start with an image and then you want to remove portions of the image (stuff in red) and just shift/shrink the image without those portions.What's the easiest way of accomplishing this? I'm just cutting/pasting and arranging it manually.Does a tool that can do this exist? I'm basically imagining something like a ripple edit for images.
>tl;drHow to make an image "lighting neutral", so how do I remove lights and shadows?---Been using Photoshop Elements 10 for a decade for casual drawing, but only now have been learning its more technical features as I'm using the program for texturing 3D objects.Noob question: what's the proper way to eliminate light and dark gradients from a photo, "neutralize" it in a way? For doing my texturing work I'd rather my image not have any light information as a base, I wanna add it myself later on.Picrel is an image I took myself and trying to clean up for future texturing use.The technique I used thus far involves me using Replace Color on the darker and lighter areas to match the color of the image that's the middle ground between them, but I got the feeling this is the wrong way of doing it. I mean it works, but I'm always looking for ways to get better results
Highpass filter in photoshop.
>>444142Where can i find graphic designers to commision for a logo, and what is the rightful price to pay for one?
>>448848>and what is the rightful price to pay for one?What designer say it is
>>444142I'm new to photoshop and /gd/. I want to make an egg into a rectangular prism while keeping its lighting/shadows, texture, color. I have no idea how difficult of a task this is. Any guidance would be appreciated.
>>448664I know nobody cares, but here's a slight update:I won the competion! Somehow... I guess the judges thinks higher of it than I do myself
>>449079Did you see the work of the other competitors?Also, if they will only use it online, that might explain
How was the effect achieved? I know it works with halftones, but I can't make heads on how it was worked in.
I have a choice between two 4:3 raster images of the same subject at different sizes: 4000x3000px and 3840x2880px.The first size is arbitrary, and the second is based on multiples of 120 found in standard resolutions.Which is better, and why? Would the latter scale more cleanly between different display sizes?
>>4492433840/2=19202880/4=720if you are taking pictures yourself set them to 4000x3000 because (AND ALSO IF) you want to be able and crop afterwards. otherwise. clean scaling is clean.
>>444142whats the app that makes these types of pictures?
>>449245Thanks for the input.>clean scaling is cleanAre you referring to the 120 based size, or the scaling method used by the display?
is there a 'best' drawing app for the android? idc if it's something paid. the most effective things in life will always cost shekels.
Why do curves work like this? I pull the red band up, and it piques early. Topping out before hitting white. I pull the blue band down, and it bottoms out early, before hitting black. Why can I not tell the curves to stop doing that, and actually make a clean curve all the way through? If I wanted the colors to pique, I would just manually set a point up there. Photoshop shouldn't just assume I want the colors to pique after an arbitrary amount of pulling on the band.
>>449723I don't think 'assuming' to be the correct term here. it is just some basic function, probably a spline, that is being truncated in order not to assume colors outside the 0-255 range.if you want a curve that does what you are describing just use additional anchor points... I am just not really seeing the problem, I guess? though I can accept coining it a peculiarity that one has to encounter at some point (for the first time).
>>449725>I don't think 'assuming' to be the correct term hereNot technically assuming, I know. But because the curve is bad, the results are as good as an assumption on photoshop's behalf. I would think that adobe knows how to make a clean curve. Yet, I'm asked to add extra anchor points? Why not make it so that the curve always avoids the edge, unless I deliberately place an anchor point on the edge? Wouldn't that both be easier to use, and also get better results?Look, I drew the red line to make the kind of curve I'm looking for. and then I used an anchor point to pull the blue band up to be "equal" to red. However, a single anchor point can't make that curve. It's too flat on the back and, and piques too early on the front end. Checking back on the red band, photoshop requires 3 anchor points in order to make the curve I drew. Might have been 2, but there's 1 point super close to the white point.So here's my problem: I want more accuracy with less effort. Adding more anchor points means more fiddling than need be. Especially considering that I'm trying to use anywhere between 10 and 50 unique curves to get the job done. Playing with 3 bands per curve is already a hassle. I don't want to do 3 points per 3 colors for every curve.And even if I were willing to go through that tedious process(I really might), I still want the curves to be very precise. Which I can't guarantee fiddling with anchor points. As who can really say if a 3 point band is making that perfect curve I'm looking for? You move an anchor point one pixel left or right, and the band bends, and you can't really tell if it's mathematically perfect, or slightly off.
>>449728hrm. maybe. idk.I like how it just does what it is supposed to do, but I get that it is not intuitive to you and that something more convenient could be thought of.I just don't know whether that is something I would want in an industry standard, professional, technical tool...maybe an 'amateur-mode feature' with stuff like that would be nice, but then again why not use something easier like lightroom or some phone app in the first place?It is THE thechnical photomanipulation tool after all.the thing I would certainly want to have is a node system, though!something like procedual texture creation in 3D or the compositing interface in nuke! single-stack-of-layers based is just so old-school when you could have a system that allows you to plug information into any other layer without having to rely on multiple copies or stacking order. smart objects are convenient, but still I want more freedom, even if it takes a bit more time to get used to...
>>449729I'm not going to pretend to be some Photoshop pro. There's a bunch of stuff I do not know. But I have been using photoshop for a number of years. So I pick stuff up via trial an error. And I also obsessively crunched the numbers, and I'm fairly certain that the "C curve" would be pretty much the optimal curve for maintaining vivid color throughout the value spectrum from black to white. Right now, I only know how to express this through manually color picking, which is a huge hassle. So I'm trying to think of an easier way to get this blend. Curve layers look like the solution to my problems. Except the stupid friggin curve doesn't work right.So please don't think of it as an "amateur mode". Think of it as an alternate, more balance mode. Because I've crunched the numbers, and its *is* more balanced than whatever the fug the curve is doing now. It's difficult to explain. But if all goes according to plan, then the color balance would look something like this in the color picker. It's difficult for me to draw without accidentally piquing the lines early myself. So just pretend I drew perfect curves.This color curve is unlike the overlay blend mode. Which, in my black to white tests, it goes linearly from black to whatever color I choose, then linearly from the chosen color to white. Snap, snap, no curve.And it's unlike the color blend mode, which tends to oversaturate the highs and lows, piquing saturation at both ends, and crosses the middle in kind of a concave dip. It's weird. You have to choose a very low saturation color to stop the piquing.So yeah, I'm considering both of those options non viable.
>>449730right. I see. it seems you have thought about it more than I realized.---what you are doing probably makes sense, but I don't fully understand, so I don't think I can help you yet.overlay blend mode increases the color channel values (RGB) in which color 2 is above mid and decreases the channel values that in color 2 are below mid.the speed (read: intensity) at which it does so is dependent on how far from mid the channel value in color 2 actually is.if you recursively apply the same color 2 via overlay again and again, you will not end up with color 2, but - maxxed out channels that color 2 was above mid in and - minned out channels that color 2 was below mid in.color blend mode takes hue and chroma from color 2, which are calculated based on all 3 channels (together with luma). It is not the exact same as HSV but similar.occasionally helpful, but weird most of the time.---feel free to post more details if you want.I would provide any help that I am able to give!
Hello everyone.I'm a musician who makes some works for my band and I want to improve my skills and maybe land a job in this...What do you recommend me in these times, learn vanilla Photoshop or go directly with the ai tools like Firefly?
>>449733Here's more information if you're interested. I think my math is off. But hopefully it conveys the idea.Use the color picker, and scan back and forth along the bars to see the uh "trajectory?" of the cursor. The way it animates along the spectrum as you move it from black to white. You can see overlay is clean. going from black, to you chosen color, to white in a linear fashion. But then my colors sort of come ant a jaunt that makes the saturation appear more even. I don't think I captured that curve. But I like the results more than overlay.
>>449733Here's another bit of info. Using the curve layer, I set the red band up halfway with only a single anchor point. And the blue and green down halfway with only single anchor points. This takes 808080 to c04040.(technically bf4040, because rounding or something. idk. That's fine) And not only that, when you scan the bar with the color picker, you can actually see the curve. The one I was looking for.The top bar is curve. The middle bar is my jank math. And the bottom bar is overlay. The curve some how accounts for the proper amount of saturation shift required to get vivid colors. The problem is, if I push the curve too high, it piques too soon. If I could just get it to not do that, I would be so happy. Or at least if I could find a workaround to get the same results as a working curve, that would be great too.
>>449751>>449752here, I thought that maybe looking at it through the color wheel could be helpful! I think it gives you a better understanding of what is going on.color is super weird. digital color even more so.I agree that the linear interpolation looks bad.if you have new insights - or if I misunderstood something - feel free to keep updating me!(also: how did you create the palettes? black to white + single color overlayed (etc.) on top?)
>>449754>(also: how did you create the palettes? black to white + single color overlayed (etc.) on top?)Yes.Though for luminosity, I had to reverse it. black and white on top of color.The color wheel looks like an accurate representation. You even represented the *spirit* of the manual adjustment, despite my jank math. I appreciate that.Splines are definitely outside of my wheelhouse. So I guess I'll have to learn it. But fat good that would do me, because I don't know how to code anyway. It's not like I can make any plugins or mods for different curves. Learning how splines work will probably only teach me why the curve adjustment layer doesn't function they way I want, and then that's it.I have been dabbling in Blender's nodes. So I'm starting to grasp a bit about shaders. A tiny bit. If I was tasked with creating an even curve in blender, I think I would be able to do it after some trial and error.I truly believe that if my curve is ever doable in photoshop, it would unlock a sort of "universal" color palette for artists. I get that the current curve is user friendly and all that. But it could be *perfect.*
How would you describe this style? Wanna look up lessons and more inspiration
>>449756>it would unlock a sort of "universal" color palette for artistsare you trying to solve color for photo manipulation and alike, or for digital painters primarily?I feel like 'ideal' tools would look slightly different for either of them.Krita is interesting in regards to alternative technical approaches!they are purely a painting/drawing app, so they don't have to play by the same rules as Photoshop does.in my mind one of the most successful instances of open source software - together with blender (?).(picrel: Krita HSY color space) ---blender and geo nodes is great. I can only recommend to keep learning nodes.both geo nodes and the shader nodes! as I said I am really craving for similar possibilities in photoshop, since it so incredibly flexible, while not enforcing as steep a learning curve as coding does.honestly if you already had a certain kind of curve in mind, it would probably be easiest importing the image into blender, turning off the 3d rendering aspects (shadows) of the program, working in shader nodes on the mathematics (basically translating the calculations from wikipedia into a node setup) and then rendering out the one image (orthographic view) with your applied 'LUT' (I know it isn't technically a LUT - whatever!).basically: >calculate HSB from RGB>split into H, S and B>shift HSB according to preferred spline (Kochanek-Bartels?)>recombine into HSB>calculate back to RGB>optional: create a control rig for easily changing tension, continuity and biassince it is node based it doesn't require you to know any conventional programming, and since the equations are online, it doesn't require math skills.
>>449761I guess 2/2(?)>>449751>>449752>>449754more ideas/impressions for you to collect//consider
>>449761>honestly if you already had a certain kind of curve in mind, it would probably be easiest importing the image into blender, turning off the 3d rendering aspects (shadows) of the program, working in shader nodes on the mathematics (basically translating the calculations from wikipedia into a node setup) and then rendering out the one image (orthographic view) with your applied 'LUT' (I know it isn't technically a LUT - whatever!).I was about to ask "why would I do all that?" And then I remembered I'm on /gd/ and not /ic/. From a graphic design perspective, I can see that being worth doing. Albeit a huge pain to set up, and needing switch to blender all the time to make adjustments. Still, it would probably get good results.But for an artist who wants to see results immediately upon laying brush strokes, this isn't worth all the effort. It would be like working color blind, and then only using my color corrective glasses after I finished my work. Plus, there are just too many layers and groups and masks I'm dealing with. I wouldn't even know where to begin trying to correct every one in blender.I'm going to be honest. I don't see myself learning splines. Not unless I saw an achievable goal at the end of it. And if it's not *too* hard to implement. Like, I don't know how to code, so it would be a tough learning curve trying to mod photoshop.But regardless, here's a few visual examples for how I imagine a single point spline. I suppose, in a fashion, the tension is changing depending on how close it is to gray and full saturation. when it's fully saturated, its tension is such that it takes the shape of a triangle. Flush along the edges. And then as it get closer to gray, the tension changes to make it more smooth, until it becomes a flat line.
>>449758I’d describe it as fucking hideous! Hope this helps!
>>449848sorry anon, you might have misunderstood: I wasn't asking about your face
>>448435He said anything that isn't those platform sites you absolute dunce
I want to edit the text of this AI image to basically match what dalle has given me but to edit it to the exact wording I want. would I learn to do that in something like adobe photoshop or after effects? I'm 10 years out of the loop of what program people use. I want to do it myself rather than trying to request it from someone
>>449828>why would I do all that?well, there is a reason I asked for the exact use case.it is difficult for me aiming at a certain goal if I do not know it, you know. honestly in some instances going through the hassle could be worth it. in others obviously not!>blenderyou could run blender in the background for creating color palettes? PS color picker allows to pick from other windows (outside of PS) [click inside of PS and then drag to another spot on your screen(s)]not necessarily the most elegant solution, but could still work!in case you are interested: I think just using the regular curves nodes is probably kind of giving you the sort of experience you are looking for. (picrel top image and node setup to its right)curves there don't clip like they do in PS.I didn't use blender much recently. so for exercise reasons I started trying a more technical approach as well, calculating HSV by hand.would've planned to influence value with a custom spline, but honestly when I tried out the standard curves, I didn't feel much need for that anymore. so I added what I got so far to picrel as well - just in case you want to toy around with that. if you find anything interesting, just post it here again for us to profit as well.>>449960yeah. PS is definitely the most capable and widely compatible solution.whether it is worth it depends on your usage.could be worth buying a single month? or you buy Affinity, which I am not using myself, but people seem to like. It is just not as industry-compatible as adobe software is. or you start with paint.net, gimp or krita.they won't compare to PS, but are free and will probably do the trick anyways. so while they aren't recommendable as long term work tools, they should all totally be fine for trying shit out.
>>449963That's a lot of math. I don't feel like figuring it out at the moment. Maybe some other time. But I did open up to check the curve node. I've fiddled with it before, so I knew about it not displaying all three colors at once. The thing that caught my eye however, is that despite your claim that the curve isn't clipping, it looks like it's on the verge of clipping in your image. And there's a few buttons there that look like the affect tension. So I clicked the right most button, and it turns out to be an option to auto-clamp the colors. Effectively, creating the spline I was looking for. Or one close enough to it. I'm not sure if it's entirely accurate. Just visually speaking, it looks like it's still clipping slightly. But it still looks VERY close to what I had in mind. Try clicking that button, and see what results you get.As for using blender as a palette: that's not a bad idea at all. Except, if I had it my way, I would like to paint in black and white, and use curves to colorize the image. Which is already what I'm doing. I'm only seeking better curves for more balanced results.I can stack curves on top of each other by setting them all to a shallow clip. That way, they don't interfere with each other. And then I set a gray #808080 layer underneath the curves. By moving a single point up and down the middle of the curve uh map thingy, it will predictably affect the gray underlayer. With this set up, I can draw in the mask of each layer, and lay down base color. Midtones basically. And then, I can shade the gray layer to get lights and shadows. The curve layers doing all the work of color picking.There's more to it than that. I do a lot more with layer arrangements to get proper color balancing. But that's the basic concept. That's my "use case" It gets good results even with curves not working the way I want. But the results could be perfect if they did.
>>449965*because* the 'RGB Curves' won't allow you to work on each channel simultaneously, I separated into individual channels R, G and B to then apply a 'Float Curve' to each one individually. afterwards recombine them into RGB. (as you can see in the top right of my last posted image - everything within that white box together is equivalent to the yellow node underneath)done.you can now have all three curves on screen at once. not having to constantly switch between modes in ONE node.the clamping wasn't necessary at smooth curves that seemed relevant for your case.I checked again and there literally is no difference (picrel).but stretching the curve as far out as you are doing, that is definitely worth doing, yeah.
>>4499682/2oh that is cool! the separate colors node can output HSV if you click the dropdown menu! that is so much more convenient than having to build the calculator yourself kek
Question to any industry people/professionals here. Do you have a niche or specific type of design you do? If so, how did you find it? I've been doing motion graphics/graphic design for about 6 years now and I've mainly been a jack of all trades but I really feel unfulfilled by it. My problem is I have too many different styles I like and have a hard time nailing one down. Any advice? Thanks bros.
Am I just being stupid or is Illustrator a huge pain in the ass to use? I can barely get it to do anything I want for shapes - adding curves, adjusting corners while keeping the line straight, trying to erase extra parts that stick out only half the time, nothing ever works perfectly. Is one of the pencil/brush tools foolproof to use?
>>450409The core functionality hasn't been updated in years. Affinity designer is far more intuitive. If Affinity had a smooth tool I would have ditched Illustrator ages ago.
>>450410I’ll have to try it. Even the pirated version of Illustrator from 2015 that I still have on my laptop is easier to use than the current release. It’s frustrating wanting to do simple scaling or transformations that any other image editing program has and it’s not possible in Illustrator
How do I make 3d rotation gifs kinda like this, preferably in gimp or blender.If I can make so different image both sides, that would be nice.
I'm trying to get back into GD, I was getting into it pretty seriously but stopped for like 2 or 3 months because I was very frustrated with not knowing how to land a job and how much shit I had to do for free and with no guidance just to "fill up" my "experience" Now I want to get back into it but have no idea where to start again because I already know most of the common stuff, so I need some help hereLast thing that happened before I stopped was getting into motion design with After Effects
What do you actually need to do color correction with photographs or scanned print material?I bought a laptop (Gigabyte A7 k1) earlier this year which I've barely used, It gets hotter then I'd like while gaming and it only has 90.9 sRGB coverage when i'm wanting to do color correction for the above stuff.Trying to decide if I should try to sell it and get a different laptop (one i'm looking at has 72% NTSC, which is like 95-99% sRGB?) or a 100% sRGB (or maybe adobe RGB etc?) mini portable monitor or a full monitor I could plug it into or what.If anybody has info on calibration hardware too I'd apperciate it.
What's the best way to get rid of the printer dots on scanned images? I've got GIMP and Krita as my disposal. In GIMP I've tried the symmetric nearest neighbor and selctive gaussian blur filters and those seem to work okay, but i'm not really an expert at these things. What's recommended for descreening? I don't have photoshop because I'm using Linux.Here's the file I'm working with, scanned at 2400 DPIhttps://litter.catbox.moe/z11mo3.png
>>444142save finished copy as a .bmp fileopen in paint, select all and copypaste into new paintsave bitmapopen in gimp/paint.net to save as whatever formatthis should eliminate any metadata, but it won't eliminate any watermarked pixels that they can use to fingerprint the image.
>>450562 hereThis is what it looks like after just selective gaussian blur and then symmetric nearest neighbor. It's okay, but I was wondering if it's possible to preserve more of the detail. Does it even matter for an image that's going to be printed at A4 size?
What editing software do you guys think it's good to make simple dumb videos like this
>>450562>>450564I'm >>450561I've been looking into this a lot as prep for when I start to scan stuff.I don't have all my resources compiled yet, but the most promising thing I've seen so far is AI based correction stuff, though I've also seen some decent results from people using specific workflows and then a PS plugin called Sattva or something like that.Here's a thread on /a/ where I asked about it and somebody linked me the AI model for this: https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/257474231/#257515176, they also dropped their email address there and I still have them added on discord
>>450567That's a great thread. I found the chaiNNer github and I'm downloading the latest release. Do you have any idea where to find the bendel halftone model that's been mentioned? search engines only give me these previews and it's not on the openmodeldb website.https://slow.pics/c/4fLnNfiGhttps://slow.pics/c/ppdJGthK
>>450562>>450564there is also the photoshop pattern suppression plugin
I want to print physical tickets to a concert I'm going to, but there is no option to print on the website. There is nothing to print at all, but I would like physical tickets so I can give them to my GF for christmas. I want it to be in the style of pic rel, but it can be much simpler. It would be for a different artist.Would anyone be able to create the ticket for me in photoshop or something?
>>450615Nevermind on this.
/p/ here 1.wanting to build a new rig with AMD 5600 CPUto my knowledge Adobe Suit works best with Geforce GPUbut does the CPU matter as in intel or amd ???For example my adobe camera raw still doesn't recognize my old radeon r9 GPU and everything's slowbut Photoshop itself uses GPU power so it's fine.2.currently on windows 7 and thinking to upgrade to whatever to make use of the AI features in future.Iam late in this but what windows version is recommended ? I refused to upgrade from 7 for a long time now..Thanks in advance
>>451265Cpu brand doesn't matter for Adobe. Look up benchmarks to see if you are getting the best bang for your buck. https://benchmarks.pugetsystems.com/ I think the AI features are done on the cloud, but having a better gpu won't hurt. Windows 10 is only supported until 2025. If you want to future proof you would have to get 11.
where can I find genuine /gd/ web developers and graphic designers for freelance work? Ideally I don't want to look for someone on Upwork or anything like that, how do I find freelancers here?
Am I a retard?I took graphic design in '12 and graduated but never did anything with the degree because I thought I wasn't as good as my peers.I'm exchanging my limited graphic design skill for equivalent value of something else but the 'client's asks are starting to outpace that value.Did I fuck up? How can I fix this situation?
>>451283forget this. my retarded brain didn't read the part of the email where I had the option to say no.
>>451281email me if you want I've been helping a lot of people at /wsr/ for a whilehttps://archived.moe/wsr/thread/761792/#761847
>>444388there was some anon years ago who claimed that he one-off threw together a piece like this in like 2004 and posted it online, and he accidentally started this entire trend. neon space pallette, gridline heightmap terrain, stylized sunrise/sunset behind. found it interesting. anyone know what I'm talking about?
I’m an analyst. I want to make infographics for work. I could have this done internally, but I want to be more self sufficient.Our data isn’t complex and is business intelligence related.What program would I use? A quick google search says adobe creative cloud, but that’s just a suite of adobe products, right?
>>451448Adobe Illustrator. Indesign if you need a large document.
>>451450Okay. Sounds great, thank you
I have gimp, don't got photoshop.If I have several different images of a game with a fixed HUD, is there a way I can put all of the images into gimp on different layers and then isolate the HUD elements onto a new transparent layer? I don't know what combination of layer modes or masks or anything like that I would need to use
>>449758contemporary Matisse imitation kids story book flat collage style
How should I make simple vector art for my shitty band? I drew a very basic little symbol that I want to use.
where can I find big .svg packs for laser engravers. all the ones on ebay and etsy are some bootleg shit downloaded from elsewhere.
>>451296I usually claim all sorts of shit on 4chan. nobody can check since I'm anonymous. might have been me.
>can kinda draw>made some very simple sketches for friends for their little companies and that kinda thing>need a job, fucking badly, by the end of the year ideally>need a portfolioI'm probably overthinking it, but is the way to go to take some mock prompts like from those prompt generator websites, make a few iterations, choose a final design, and make 2-3 good ones?what other sites do people here frequent where you can look through someone's portfolio thread, talking about where they apply and how they got their first job? I need some real world examples
might be a shot in the dark - but does anyone know how to create this sort of effect?
Anyone have tips on graphs/charts? Will probably use illustrator, if that helps. I’m used to using LaTeX, so the charts are obviously not fancy. I’ll be using graphs/charts for business intelligence purposes (blog posts, not client products so I can get creative)Examples would be cool, anything you like.
Can someone make a vector of this? So i can scancut this in wood? Maie the wheelsof the cart a little bigger too (pop out more)
I want to make my own .svg patterns for laser engraving, instead of buying some half baked pack off of etsy. are there any telegram channels for them?
>>444142Is 3D modeling with blender a good skill to have with all those AR/VR that is coming in the future ?
>>444142Newfag to /gd/, help me out anonsWhat's the correct name of this effect? I know it uses zoom and shit, but there's another name for this besides of just "zoom in/out"?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptz9yNTyBpc
very amateur designer, just started school but I think I'm at least slightly competentI really like the idea of working in music and I want to reach out to local bands and offer some free work just to get a sort of real portfoliois this retarded? is there a better way of networking?
How can I go more than 100% hardness in brush without looking like a pencil?
>>453271duplicate layer or increase contrast with adjustment layer (curves, levels, contrast,...)you could also increase the resolution.
Is video editing a viable career path? I like making videos and just about everything else makes me want to kill myself. AI makes just about every remaining creative career look bleak at the moment.
>>453478It Is, In fact If AI takes over then I feel like I'd do the same and go for the video editing job. But then again Clipchamp Is making and training an AI for editing videos so I'm not so sure how long that job would last. Let's hope for the best right now though.
Has there ever been a /gd/ collaborative project?I think something like a /gd/zine where people can sign up for a page each would be coolno topic or anything, just whatever the fuck
>>449968>>449965Yeesh, this board is slow. Nearly 5 months later, and this thread has barely moved. Well in any case, I figured I should share my new discovery. I figured out a way to trick photoshop into creating the curve I drew here: >>449730It's a trick I worked out years ago, but never felt it was viable for painting, because it required re-setting a top layer, every time you painted on the bottom layer. So it was just cumbersome. However with this set up, it works universally.In order to recreate it, just copy what's shown in the image. Not that I "inverted" the band of both curve layers. Making black to white and white to black. If you neglect that, then it won't blend right. If you're like "what the hell is he yappin about?" Just run the color picker across the red line. And you will see how all the colors trace a curve.That curve is maintaining even saturation, while going from black to white. When you paint on the color burn layer, it will take colors to black, but in a pleasing way that maintains saturation so it doesn't feel washed out like normal black blending. It will also shift the hue down to whichever RBG channel it's closest to. So yellows will gradually hue shift down to orange. And oranges will gradually hue shift down to red. But if you're on the green side of yellow, then it will instead hue shift down to green. If you're on the blue side of cyan, it will hue shift down toward blue. This hue shift appears very even as well.Painting in the color dodge layer does all the same things, except becoming lighter, and hue shifting "up" rather than down. Orange will lighten to yellows, and blues will lighten to cyans. Again, in an even way.The downside to all this, is that the colors get crunchy near pure white or pure black. That's simply because there aren't enough colors to divide into such small increments. A natural limitation of math and 8bit color. Also, you can't effect pure white with burn, nor pure black with dodge.
>>453550Here are some examples. The left and right balls use the same exact masks. Only difference is, the balls on the right are using basic black and white for shading. Which of course looks like ass. And the left balls are using my set up. Notice how it clings onto saturation and shifts hues.
Beginner here, how do I generate this effect in Photoshop?
>>444142apologies if I'm on the wrong board, 3dgd didnt seem like the right place for his.Is there any software that could allow me to easily perform pic rel?I and puppeteering all the images and using a screen recorder on the main, parent media at the moment. It works, but I wonder if there is an easier way
any places where you can find designs for flyers, posters, brochures as inspo that are actual real world examples, and not just a copllection of "portfolio works" that would never go past a client? I know behance has some, anything else?
>>454440oh what the fuck, deja vu
>>444142I'm looking to make a shirt design. I will take a raw image and turn it into a black and white symbol, with the white being transparent. It should be similar to this picWhat is it called? I will look for tutorials.
>>454906Some kind of vector trace.
>>454906Just ramp up the contrast to max and change brightness until you have something that looks nice. In your own vector software use trace bitmap>brightness cutoff>single color. Which would make the raster object into a vector graphic for use in screen printing.
>>454906explain this qanon meme shirt please
Any good resources on designing custom text logos like this? What would the process be if you were to start from scratch?
>>452632that pic looks like a Louis Vuitton X Pornhub collab lol
>>453577idk if there's a way to do it more quickly, but if i had to make that from scratch i would do this:white background layerthen on a new layer get the rectangular marque and make a very long slim rectanglular selection that's so thin it's basically a line, paint bucket that selection black, then deselectthen duplicate the layer that has the black line a bunch of times and use Free Transform to move/rotate them into whatever pattern you wantif you have to stretch the rectangles out to make them longer without making them wider then hold Shift while you extend it from the sides in Free Transform and then they will only get longer and stay thin
What is this filter called? I have a friend that loves this kind of edgy shit and I want to make some more for him. How do you achieve this in say GIMP?
>>455416There probably is an introductory tutorial on Adobe website for beginners of this software of how to use the layer adjustment panels and filters, smart layers, non-destructive editing, and how to stack multiple adjustments and filters to make an image look weird like that.
>>455417Something like this
>>455418Didn't read "GIMP", I'm a bit drunk right now.Krita is more similar to Photoshop from what I've seen and has non-destructive adjustment layers and filters.
>>455417>>455418>>455419I'll check it out, thx
>>455421Same kind of deal with Krita, but these are all Filter Layer and Fill Layer (for solid color or gradient overlays) except for the underlying Paint Layer which is the original image.
This is meant to be a wordmark for a band i'm playing in, and is my first foray into /gd/. Very much work-in-progress. Can it be salvaged? How?What would you do with the L and T to make it not shit? I've been stuck trying to make something not awful for well over an hour. My intention was to have all the characters work as one unit, and having the shapes fit into eachother. Does it work, or is the tight spacing too much?
>>455425this is illegible and plays on none of the images/associations of the word eye /bolt / eyeboltgo draw some founts for a while or just copy some shit for a bit
>>455433thank you
Hello, I use GIMP and would like to remove the selected area and make it transparent, any idea how I could do that?
>>455455nvm, figured it out
hello lads, can you recommend someone on youtube that teaches drawing well?I'm gonna do it on my old intuos board that I remember buying 10 years ago.Cheers
I have two versions of the same image, however one image has text on it, and the other while text free has had a 25-50% transparent white layer placed over it.Is there a method with PS I could use to make the whitened image match the original unaltered colors of the version with the text version so I can try and get a textless version with the original shading?"Match Color" couldn't even come close
>>455890personally I think the answer is pretty obvious, but there you go:the white layer messes with luminosity and saturation.THUS you want to tackle luminosity first by changing the blend mode of the correct-colors-layer to LUMINOSITYand a copy of that layer to SATURATION right on top of that. mask out the text in both of them.looks like this:>sat layer (text layer with nice colors - masked)>lum layer (text layer with nice colors - masked)>textless layer with wrong colors
Does anybody recognize the precise origin of this particular skull graphic? This specific image file is lifted from the flag on the wikipedia page for the Yugoslavian Chetniks, but whoever made it was using this default skull-and-crossbones graphic that I have seen on hazardous chemical warnings, pirated Windows OS startup screens, and stuff like that, across different languages and countries. I want to know where it originally comes from but I'm not a /gd/head myself
how much should i expect to pay for one of you degenerates to take these style of logos and make them work as print on 20 oz yeti tumblers
>>455891Not that anon, since you seem to know a bit about saturation and luminosity, how do you stress test a photoshopped image for flaws that would be visible under a different monitor? I use a cheapass monitor which I assume isn't very accurate with its colors. Do you just crank saturation and luminosity and check for flaws? What's the professional way to do it? Thanks
>>456351professional way of doing it is not using shitty equipment kekif the hardware sucks it'll continue being guess-work. toy around with saturation, brightness, maybe color balance. also try uploading an export to your phone.
>>456352well but like, at the end of the day, every monitor is different so I feel a professional would do that regardless of their monitor. Stress-testing the image for oddities. Yeah cranking the sliders up and down is what I do sometimes
This is a bit of a weird one, and I'm also admittedly super new to GD so the answer may seem super obviousI basically have 30 emblems from wildly different sources and in wildly different artstyles, and I need to simplify and "standardize" them so they don't look completely out of place if presented side by sideI've considered taking something like left in picrel, cutting out the purple background and the golden frame so I only have the lute and the whirly thingy and then applying a simple BnW filter: problem is that it would still look very out of place compared to the other example on the right because of the difference in detailsSo, is there some tool I should be looking at to streamline this process/make things more uniform ?
>>456356threshold and torn edges maybekind of hard to remake something in a new style without remaking it in a new style
>>456357Actually I've come across a thing called Vectorizer and it seems to be what I was looking for, seems like it just lets me convert the image into simple shapes which kinda helpsI'll keep your advice in mind too if that fails, thanks anon
Hey /gd/ I'm a /co/rtoonist, I've drawn and lettered comics by hand but moving to digital is more complicated than I expected.Blambot's free fonts have no use for me since none have lower case letters and I don't have they money to buy anything from blambot or comicraft.Right now I'm thinking about making a font based off my hand lettering but I'm not sure how complicated that can be.Should I pirate a font or make my own? Where do you get your pirated fonts?
>>456381just google a font name + downloadfont 'creation' requires font softwarejust have everyone shouting at each other all the timesolved.
>>444142I use the old cs2 it’s free and legal to own and it’s too old for that shit to be inside it
>>444145Most of the time it’s how the Pixels are organized or there is a hidden watermark not just something hidden in the metadata. Printers do this too so if you print off a ransom note a few dots at the top or bottom of the page will tell you what kind of printer it is.
>>444978Im old school and trace over it with a vector
>>444877>what kind of art is this reallyModern art I guess can you let me know what's wrong with this painting?There is nothing wrong with them. It’s not particularly catching, but that’s a personal preference. If it was part I’d a series in a gallery that would help it stand out more next to other similar works by the artist showcasing their style and it helps you ponder their work. If they had a goal in mind can you let me know their goal so I can let you know if they achieved it or not. >make the main subject of the painting stands out from the backgroundLook at different framing techniques, rule of thirds, or fourths, bull’s-eye effect, Fibonacci, putting some thing in the foreground or background.
>>447306You don’t need an art program for that. Just look up pattern making for sewing projects
>>447102Maybe put it through one of those Minecraft image converter for creating pixel art in Minecraft and instead of working with bricks inside the game you can place a grid over a canvas and use the corresponding colors to squares
>>456383I didn't expect this to be so easy, now I have all he fonts i want.
Is there any easy way to convert colours to their Pantone equivalent outside of using Illustrator?I design a lot of things on Procreate and often need to get the Pantone codes for printing, but it's ridiculously hard to do this without Illustrator.
>>456069I keep seeing it, but where does it come from?
>>444142I'm looking for websites that hold meme templets or image insert templets? For example like the one in pic related.
>>456507try reddit>lol
>>456508Pass, unless you are talking about the quality of the meme itself? Its just an example.
What would be a good way to try to 'restore' photos with heavy filter use like pic related? I don't know much about photo editing, I've tried playing with curves and while it helps a bit it doesn't feel enough I have a couple of old photos that with heavy filters and I want to improve them a bit since I don't have the originals
I want to draw something similar to this chart, with an hand-drawn look (because I'm going to make some iterations), but I'm mostly trained in CAD softwares, which have very stiff, technical drawing. But regular drawing softwares confuse me. Is there some kind of free software that 's close in use to CAD drawings while still retaining that hand-drawn feel?
>>457004I feel like playing with the tools, filters & effects on any given software (GIMP? Krita?) can get you most of the way there but it would require experimentation.If it were me, I would have fun drawing it by hand using a compass and ruler and so on, and scanning it and playing with that. Using different pens & pencils to get different textures too, etc
>>457011The reason I want to use a software is because I want to do several differents versions of it, so while I have sketches of it on paper I need something on the computer I can switch around.I tried using Krita but holy shit, I know it's not my domain, but I genuinely think every software drawing tool are created by retards. There's no other explanation as to why it's so complicated to do something as simple as making angles start from the exact same point. Maybe I'm just biased but something extremely simple that would take me ten seconds in CAD is simply not possible.Fuck it, I'll just go back to Autocad, at least this one was designed by people who knew what the fuck they were doing.
>>457012>doesn't even understand what drawing programs are made for but still feels entitled
>>456069spotted another
I want to get into making websites, infographics, and books but don't want to look foolish with my design choices. Is there a basic aesthetics guide for good, professional, minimalist style?
How are these templates made? I have several of them but I want to make one of my own in a custom size.
>>457052probably as vector.try inkscape for a free and solid option with lots of tutorials online
>>457041yeah, learn how to design
I'm hellbent on making a font evoking the feeling of reading a traditionally typeset book and ideally 17th/18th century typography work for a corporate design because I like the aesthetic and want to emit a feeling of traditional seriousness instead of modernity. This means, in particular, it needs to look okay out of a basic bitch 300 dpi office printer, and on a 96 dpi website at 16 px font size. I've found a set of fonts I like (see left).But now I'm stuck trying to find something that I can redistribute, too, so essentially I'm locked into OFL-type stuff or straight up paying for a custom design. The options I feel most comfortable with are Crimson Text and STIX Two. However, Crimson Text has some bizarre kerning, especially next to the letter T, and issues in print with the lower-case d. STIX Two basically requires me to fix every instance of italic since it seems to have severe spacing issues to the point where e.g. the fairly common word "cry" has r and y touching at anything below like 20pt font size.I require both bold and italic, value the x-height not being too low and a certain je ne sais quoi that I hope the experienced and knowledgeable people here can help me figure out.
Dumb question. I'm doing some boxes and have a problem due to the client requiring a certain image they have, the image is one of those 3D objects made with meshes, the problem is the files they have are basically a rasterized image with a rgb black background, something like pic related. I tried asking for the original file but their designer just sent me a pdf with the same rasterized image. My problem comes from not being sure of how to use it for printing, The boxes will be printed with a black background, but I have failed on getting rid of the other colors from the background in the image they provided. Deleting the background doesn't seem to work since the meshes make it way too hard to get a clean result. I have also tried playing with the channels and a few other options but nothing seems to fully work
>>457141I don't *really* understand what your situation is. can't you convert to black and white and then ramp up the contrast? please provide the original, or maybe a part of it, if you need more help.
>>457141cant tell what your needs or issues really are.figure that out and make a specific request to designer. like dont ask for 'original' file, ask for a vector image, or whatever suits your purpose.
i have a wacom intuos screenless drawing tablet but have been getting told to get an Ipad as it would be better for drawing stuff. Ive been researching it all but man idk its so pricey for what it is. If i wanted to use CSP id have to pay for the subscription which I personally loathe sub services. It would probably be annoying as hell to import all of my csp and ps brushes onto it. and theres so many different models to choose from but the one that seems the best for drawing and having it feel fluid and good is an ipad air 4 I guess but thats like 400-600 bucks. and id only really be learning to draw more on it and use imessage finally.Im rambling but idk what do u anons think?
>>457303the language around pen interfaces is fucking stupid. like a pen tablet isnt a touchscreen and all tihs shit. figure out if you want the 'tablet interface" or a touch screen and go from there.
>>457307id say id like touch screen.
Hi /gd/, how do I turn the body hair blue on pic rel?I wanted to make a throwaway Brazilian Miku meme but it made me realize I don't know how and it's bugging me. Indian PS tutorials aren't helping either.Thanks in advance.
hello, I have a question about using inkscape. I want to create a base layer that is a solid color I can add shit on top of. how do I create a layer that is the size of my canvas that is bounded so I can use the stupid ass paint bucket tool on.
>>457321Some kind of selective color. Change white to blue. If you can isolate the hairs with a levels and use a mask you can get a better picture.
>>457309then any computer/notebook, 2 in 1 type that has a touch capable CAPACITIVE touch screen pen you do you. you dont have to live in the wacom style ecosystem. you want the ones that work with the electric field of the screen and can very tiny tips.
>>457326thanksi tried selecting highlights and adding a hue / saturation layer to that but i'm not all that happy with iti can't make a fine enough selection that way
>>457331shit fogot pic
Hi /gd/ I have always hated graphic design especially the last years i graduated, i hated every second of it, literally the worst years of my life. So fast forward almost 7 years attempting to change career paths and i am stuck in a toxic desk job editing photos and designing a webstore. So i gotta get back into it asap so i can get a new job, preferably before i get a depression. Any advice on projects for a portfolio or preferable skills to become semi competent?
>>457373so, uh you went to school for graphic design, have been steadily employed for 7 years, and youre complaining and you dont know what to do?
is this normal?
>>457391do you have 12 instances of photoshop running?and yes, depending the files size photoshop can be quite intensive.
>>456069
Is it even possible to pirate photoshop anymore, I need it
>>457472no bro, they patched the piracy glitch
>>457472>>457474yes. older versions. and likely the most recent ones too
>>457475Can you fill me in on how? I thought cause of the cloud login it's basically impossible now
I can't code a seamless gradient metallic border for a project nor find any available borders. So I'm about to make one. How do you make a seamless square border? Create a square, give it a gradient, cut out the middle, slice into pieces and export? Shit could someone help me out here. I just want a metallic looking music player but quality doesn't matter much because it's meant to look like year 2000 design
In Illustrator, how can I make all this outline one big outline without those random out of shape lines that appear when I do ctrl+j?
>>444142i have 0 experience beside texture tinkering in photoshopi'm in a tentative stage as a promo poster/vid editor for a computer sales shop/websitewhat are some resources on programs & ideas I can draw from?presently promo posters are for workstation & the owner dictated solid white as the background for some reason, I understand he wants it to reflect endurance but everything stands out too muchalso most pics arent loading now on /gd/ among all boards 3rd world shithole for what it matters so impressionalism get along way I guess, regardless of the solid white BGM limitation
What AI software will upscale shitty .jpegs to make them useable in textile printing?
is it me or are most of the images in this thread just either not loading on phones or completely deleted entirely?
>>444142u can erase metadata using ExifTool (exiftool.org)exiftool -all= *.file_extension
I don't know gd, I'm coming from an engineering background. In CAD software you can set up parameters to change the design. Basically these are dimensions that drive the design that can be changed to create different configurations of the same thing. I'm running into a limitation where the software I am using won't allow strings to be stored as parameters. This is obnoxious as I have a series of parts that I need to engrave with 100+ different custom strings. If I could find a program that would allow me to parametrically create the font lines and export it in a vector format for toolpathing, I wouldn't have to input it manually. Ideally there would be an interface that can take copy-paste strings from Excel and the software would place the strings into the correct places, with the correct orientation, font, etc. Does this functionality exist (cheaply?)
>>457676a few months ago they moved from 4channel back to 4chan
>>458149Check out rhino + grasshopper
in the windows file explorer when i have multiple folders above one another i can change the selected folder with the arrow keys, is there a way to change the layer selection in the same way in photoshop
>>458159ctrl and [ ]
>>458160that moves the selected layer, i want to change which layer is selected
>>444142I gotchuEvery design app produces metadata, and it fully depends on who developed the app on what metadata there is. Check out an online EXIF or metadata viewer to see if it has any data.Options to remove metadata:1.) Take a screenshot (still has a little bit of usually non-concerning metadata, but most importantly the metadata is not from whatever tools you use)2.) Scrub and/or view metadata with an online tool like jimpl[.]com (preferably use one that isn't sketch)Better yet take a screenshot and then scrub it for privacyGLHF
Does anyone have any decent PS resources to add coom to pictures ? I've already explored most of the options available on the web, including the super famous SFMLabs guide, but they mostly suck, and it seems that most artists would rather share this kinda stuff under retarded SFW names like "white funny lotion brush"
>>458149>>458154What about software with a template that pulls text attributes from an outside source, or has the ability to copy-paste large amounts of strings quickly?
>>458165ask at >>>/r/ for a photoshop mega pack but you'll probably have to bump for a day, maybe say is for helping fulfil more requests
>>458172I ended up scraping DA for 4 hours and got a decent enough collection, mostly converted by hand, I had kinda forgot that whole board existedSorry I posted in the wrong thread anons
>>458162alt and brackets.
Has anyone here worked with large format prints?At what DPI have you worked? a bus stop poster at 300dpi it's a ridiculous resolution but if the poster is not meant to be look up close then a smaller dpi with a resolution that is easier to handle should be acceptable, right?
>>458176thank you its perfect, exactly what i wanted
>>458200I can't say for sure, but I once worked for a place who also did store banners and when there was images in it they used 100dpi images.I did not work directly with it, I was just there to review and prepress some files (none of them had images) for a couple of days, so I would recommend you to have another opinion about it.
>>444142Is this the board I go to for video editing questions and advice?
does anybody have any free resource for vectors or stock images/patterns?
Someone showed me the math on how to estimate how big a webm/video would be when exporting from a video editor but they neglected to give and explanation of wtf I'm looking at.
I'm new to adobe CCthere are many math/code visualizations on youtube like 3blue1brown or othersI'm wondering if there's an option to create such animations using adobe CC: provide data that changes over time, assign data to corresponding object and render results? something like pic related
Can someone help me indentify how that background pattern is called? Or even what material is it supposed to mimick?I'm a rookie and I need to build an audio plugin VST design. All I know so far is too look around for neumorphism as it's the style I'm looking for.Most of the time it's a bit too flat for what I need to achieve, but anyway I'm in the phase of acquiring the terms of what I'm seeing on my main reference picture.
>>458403I'm seeking to do something that would match these 3 styles. Would be a dark background with billiant, colored highlights simulating leds/electronical lights.Any keywords that I can use to orientate my learning is welcomed.
>>456069>>457034>>457462>>457668The logo for Tokidoki LLC (designers of the Catholic Church's recently viral 2025 anime mascot, Luce) incorporates the crossed femurs from this graphic.
>>458393It is possible that you could do it with After Effects with scripting, but it would be better if you learn python and how to use his library named Manim. Take a look in the following videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOXmbB-Uqmchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbu7Zu5X1zIThe problem with the 3blue1brown videos is that they are really dependent on the data it is shown in the video.>>458266Vectors: FreepikIcons: Iconmnstr, NounProject and Material Icons from googleImages: unsplash>>458403Sorry i did not understand exactly what you looking for, but i believe if you search along the lines of "dark player skeumorphism" you will me able to find what you looking for. Also, take a look on old WinAmp skins.
>>458435Thanks
>>458438I'm trying to replicate a DJ Deck's Jog wheel, seen from top.1st row is my start2nd row is AI iteration, I'm trying to replicate the 3 parts of the design and their relief3nd row is a reference from real world.Any tips?
>>458458Man, i think this matter does deserve a thread. I think this way you can make more noise in this slow board.What I particulary would recomend is the basic: first of all get a lot of references from both real dj sets/dials and plugins that use a similar style and see what you like/dislike and how they use light/shadow to create volume.
>>458466Alright thanks
Anyone know how to get a sheer effect over skin like with sheer tops/leggings in photoshop? Trying to add some different textures to some images
Anyone knows what this transition effect is called? Give me a name.
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>>458638>>458639morph cut
Hi. I'm looking for a cheap tablet for light use—simple drawings, note-taking, calligraphy practice, and messing around with Blender. Thinking about the "egee M908," but the few YouTube reviews I found only cover unboxing and the first hour of use. I know you guys have good judgment and experience... Anyone familiar with this model or brand? Is it worth it as an entry-level tablet for a hobbyist/newbie fag?
